Materials Data on Np2C3 by Materials Project
Np2C3 is Plutonium carbide structured and crystallizes in the cubic I-43d space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Np3+ is bonded in a 6-coordinate geometry to six equivalent C2- atoms. There are three shorter (2.44 Å) and three longer (2.53 Å) Np–C bond lengths. C2- is bonded to four equivalent Np3+ and one C2- atom to form a mixture of distorted corner and edge-sharing CNp4C trigonal bipyramids. The C–C bond length is 1.42 Å.
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